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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
- Replies: 3655
- Views: 109086
Re: Chaos in USA
I have been following https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ Kennedy seems to be the topic of the week. Every side seems to think Kennedy will hurt Biden more than Trump. Indeed, any Third party candidates in any elections will hurt the Dems more than the Republicans. There are assorted attempts across...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Aviation Design, Manufacture and Maintenance
- Topic: High Tech Tool Tracking
- Replies: 7
- Views: 132
Re: High Tech Tool Tracking
One of my previous employers has a fancy solution for tool tracking on production lines. Mostly cars, but I think they've got pictures of an aircraft line too. For cars, it's possible to set things up so that as a car comes into the area, the system wirelessly programs the torque wrench to the corre...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Baltimore bridge collapse
- Replies: 52
- Views: 832
Re: Baltimore bridge collapse
The remaining question, given the recent information about the ship having serious electrical problems in port, is do the crew get several thousand Brownie Points for doing everything possible when the crisis happened, but lose several million BPs for setting sail with an unsafe ship in the first p...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
- Replies: 4827
- Views: 138783
Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread
I looked at that picture and wondered which bridge of the three you were asking about.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:30 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
- Replies: 4827
- Views: 138783
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: Duxford.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 180
Re: Duxford.
Pilot didn't make it. A man who died after a private plane crashed at a well-known airfield has been named by friends and colleagues as pilot Simon Riggs. Emergency services were called to Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford, Cambridgeshire, at about 13:41 GMT on Tuesday. The victim, aged in his 50s a...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Baltimore bridge collapse
- Replies: 52
- Views: 832
Re: Baltimore bridge collapse
Inevitably the local media started talking about how safe the Bay Area bridges are, and we are reassured that they're much safer than the one that collapsed, being designed to withstand earthquakes and similar major upsets. They also pointed out that a lot of the bridge supports are in relatively sh...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19379
- Views: 979386
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Morning all, currently sunny out after an earlier shower. Last night around 19:30 the power glitched for 5-10 seconds. Then a bit later it glitched again and then went out completely. Came back on just after midnight. The power brick I bought for the van came in handy, provided power for lights and ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:20 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10860
- Views: 470563
Re: Friday Jokes
There are 10 types of people, those who know binary, those who don't, and those who didn't expect this joke to be in ternary.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
- Replies: 4827
- Views: 138783
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in North Korea
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3441
Re: Chaos in North Korea
Alan Titchmarsh gains street cred! North Korea's state television channel has censored a BBC gardening programme - by blurring out presenter Alan Titchmarsh's trousers. Central TV aired a 2010 edition of Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets for its morning audience, but made sure that viewers could not ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
- Replies: 4827
- Views: 138783
Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread
Looks very Netherlands, but not Amsterdam.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
- Replies: 5700
- Views: 161051
Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Well, apparently they did, but according to Sly News, Russia's ambassador to Poland did not attend the foreign ministry in Warsaw today despite being summoned to do so. Arrogance personified. A diplomatic note will be sent by another means, the foreign ministry said. So if Poland stationed some ant...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: WTF is happening in the UK?
- Replies: 6311
- Views: 183774
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Here it is folks the list no one knew that they needed :)) https://www.danwoottonoutspoken.com/p/the-fifty-worst-people-in-the-uk Fortunately I've never heard of several of them until reading their names on that list. I do wonder what the left-wing equivalent list would be, then we could have fun m...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
- Replies: 5700
- Views: 161051
Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
I guess the terms "drone" and "UAV" have collided a bit. To me, that's big enough to be a UAV, I consider a drone to be more the small quadcopter type of thing.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:50 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19379
- Views: 979386
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Any animal killers here?
- Replies: 513
- Views: 24586
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10860
- Views: 470563
Re: Friday Jokes
Only wearing one glove today. The weather forecast says it's going to be cold, but on the other hand it may be warm.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Space Related (& Freight) Ops
- Topic: SpaceX
- Replies: 946
- Views: 41075
Re: SpaceX
I thought they'd had something similar for the Shuttle, given its lack of other obvious escape mechanisms - down the line, take cover in a shelter and hope to survive the pressure wave of the blast.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: More Boeing Bad News
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 43655
Re: More Boeing Bad News
I always thought the big plus of a jet was the lack of moving parts. Just that one big spinny thing (occasionally two) in the middle, and a few valves. Chucking in a load of gears is just asking for more trouble, although I guess they're using the record of turbopros as a starting point for putting ...